Healthy Mocha Oatmeal(and the Versatile Blogger Award!)

by Heidi @ Food Doodles on April 20, 2011

I’m always coming up with new ideas for oatmeal. Of course there’s nothing wrong with the original oatmeal with milk and a little brown sugar, but I like to be creative with my breakfast and usually I don’t want a sugar topped breakfast to start my day. I’ll be posting more oatmeal ideas in the future too. I just tried this the other morning and I will be making it again for sure. The kids couldn’t stay away either 🙂

What I usually do at some point is cook up a big pot of oats. I love steel cut oats, but they take a fairly long time to cook, and I am not a morning person usually. So I cook a big pot and then put it in the fridge for the following mornings. I believe it works out to about 1/4 cup of dry steel cut oats that I use in the morning if you want to make it all in the morning before assembling the rest of the ingredients. Or you can use one serving of regular old fashioned rolled oats or whatever kind you like best.

I put the banana in the bowl and mash it up well. This time I reserved a couple slices for the top, you can do that if you like. It looks nice, why not? 😀 To the well mashed banana I add the cocoa, coffee, vanilla and milk and mix it well. Then you can either mix in the hot oatmeal(if you’ve just cooked it) or mix in the cold oatmeal that’s been refrigerated. You can put it in a pot and heat it on the stove for a couple minutes or you can put it in the microwave for a minute or two. Serve with strawberries on top. We used frozen which was really nice with the hot oatmeal, but it really doesn’t matter.

Now to show you why I’ve kept my regular post fairly short… The lovely Lauren over at Peanut Butter and Ginger awarded me with the Versatile Blogger Award! How exciting! I’m so honored, thank you Lauren! Be sure to check out her blog, she has so many delicious ideas!

Here are the rules of accepting and passing on the Versatile Blogger award:

Thank the person who awarded you and link back to them in your post.

Tell 7 random facts about yourself.

Pass the award on to 15 new found bloggers.

Contact each blogger you want to pass the award on to and let them know you’ve done so.

Let the giver of the award know you accept it…or not!

So here are my 7 random facts:

1. I’m an only child. This might be(only a part of) why I love my inlaws so much. My husband is one of 5 so… siblings!! Yay!

3. I’ve always had long hair. Well, I did cut it short once or twice when I was pregnant with my daughter, but it was still long enough to tie up. I love my hair long, I’ll never cut it off again. It may be curly and wild, but I love it.

4. I’m not quite 5’2″. People make fun of my shortness… But again, it’s something I love about myself. I have no desire to be taller.

5. I hate math. It is just not my thing. At all.

6. I love rain. There’s something super cozy about being inside on a really rainy day. Or maybe I love it so much because I grew up in Vancouver. Isn’t that like, the rain capital of the world? Ok, maybe just Canada 🙂

7. I have no allergies. I can’t think of a single thing that makes me sneeze, itch or break out into a rash. I’m super fortunate that way.

I’m adding a number 8… I’m really shy(or used to be – I’m trying not to be!) It was so difficult to think of 7 random facts, haha. Probably much harder than it needed to be.

And now to pass it on… well actually a lot of bloggers that I’d like to nominate have already done it so I’ll just pass it on to anyone that reads my blog(is that cheating? Or being lazy… maybe). If you haven’t gotten this award, or done this before, I nominate you! I’d love to come read your 7 facts on your blog so if you do this, leave me a link so I can come learn about you 😀

I loved reading your random facts! I always enjoy learning more about the bloggers I enjoy hearing from :] I was painfully shy growing up, too; I’m still a more reserved kind of person which I just find ironic since I have a blog that anyone can read 😛
Love the mocha oatmeal, too! When I had oatmeal on a daily basis, I loved cooking it up in already brewed coffee.

That’s a much better way to describe it. I’m still very reserved. It is funny that we have blogs. I think this is a good outlet for me. I have no problem writing to people but if I have to speak to someone in person I put it off and put it off.
Mmm, I bet that oatmeal was so good. I’d actually have to have a coffee maker or something for that though, haha.

I’m a shy, only child, too!! I also feel uncomfortable around crowds of people unless I’m with someone I know well. But enough about me (haha), let’s talk about that yummy-looking oatmeal! I’m totally going to make this soon since I’ve been eating oatmeal every morning for over two weeks now. I never use milk in my oatmeal just to keep calories low (and I only have skim milk in my place), but I may add a bit of milk for this recipe. Thank you for sharing this recipe and the great photos!

Glad to know I’m not the only one! I’ve mostly grown out of it now… But I still have shy tendencies! As for the oatmeal… I just find adding a little milk helps it mix better, especially after the oatmeal has been refrigerated. If you don’t want to add milk you can always just add a little bit of water.

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Hi, I'm Heidi! I'm a mom of 3 kids ages 8 and under feeding my family real food. Heavy on the fruits and veggies but also full of healthy whole grain baked goodies, these are my experiments with good food, my Food Doodles.
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